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but i got news for you as long as you are on a resource-based energy system, or resourced-based economy, you are always at the effect of the limitations on that resource. there is no way around it, you are going to run out of it. and if you go we have 100 years of natural gas. look if it is causing earthquakes to get it out of the ground now, what about the crap gas, if there was an easy flow -- spigot that you stick it in the ground, we would be using that natural gas. we're not. the natural gas boom going on now, involves pumping huge amounts of water in the ground -- >> you are talking about frac-ing. >> hal: yes, and directly causing earth quicks in areas of the country they are not used to. here we are. we arel -- ohio has never done that. in john boehner's direct unfortunately anybody who voted for him the last ten times around you are not thinking about the future you are totally just -- you have hung up on that notion because just outside of his district in lima ohio, there is a factory that is making abrams tanks, and he snuck in $180 million for upgrades to this tank, which is
but i got news for you as long as you are on a resource-based energy system, or resourced-based economy, you are always at the effect of the limitations on that resource. there is no way around it, you are going to run out of it. and if you go we have 100 years of natural gas. look if it is causing earthquakes to get it out of the ground now, what about the crap gas, if there was an easy flow -- spigot that you stick it in the ground, we would be using that natural gas. we're not. the natural...
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the greek economy is that. here you have a small country that does very well and it is mostly tourist based, you didn't think of it is an industrial hub, and they take some money from their retirement accounts, and they invest it in things so their return is high enough that if it was just a savings account kind of situation the return wouldn't be enough for the aging population, because the mediterranean diet is wonderful for the body, so they live longer, and they invested in securities things that are safe by higher return yields. one being mortgages. >> so they got caught up in our crappy wall street scam -- >> hal: yeah, they amongst other people, including pension schemes across the country sold this bill of goods, you can bet your money on these mortgage securities, these are a-rated and it was all based on what the chinese would call funding peh. which means fart air. >> okay. >> hal: so the -- the greeks have money invested in this -- and then it collapses, and oh, crap we don't have enough for our soc
the greek economy is that. here you have a small country that does very well and it is mostly tourist based, you didn't think of it is an industrial hub, and they take some money from their retirement accounts, and they invest it in things so their return is high enough that if it was just a savings account kind of situation the return wouldn't be enough for the aging population, because the mediterranean diet is wonderful for the body, so they live longer, and they invested in securities...
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never worked not ever and every time a republican president gets in and tries use them, it craters the economy, every single time and bush was the most egregious obvious example of that but even ronald reagan had to raise taxes seven times due to the fact that their other policies were shrinking the middle class. now when i say their economic policies are unsuccessful, that's because from my point of view, i want a healthy, thriving middle class. the progressive side of things liberals in this country, while we certainly care for the poor, we don't do it at the exclusion of the middle class our the exclusion of millionaires. but the middle class has been squeezed so horribly by the -- the -- you know, the promise of trickle-down economics and the chicago school of economics it just -- i mean from -- something as -- the heavy side of it and the shock doctrine, to the crap idea that somehow if you just let the job makers not pay taxes they will hide all of their money in vegas rather than the cayman islands and we'll all live off of the interest it's absurd nonsense that it's the bootstrapers an
never worked not ever and every time a republican president gets in and tries use them, it craters the economy, every single time and bush was the most egregious obvious example of that but even ronald reagan had to raise taxes seven times due to the fact that their other policies were shrinking the middle class. now when i say their economic policies are unsuccessful, that's because from my point of view, i want a healthy, thriving middle class. the progressive side of things liberals in this...
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it has had to many echos effects with our economy ptsd, coming back with so many different ailments, trying to get back adjusted to society. hal: the cascading cost of the iraq war is almost unfathomable, $2.2 trillion. you talk about the loss of just normal life things, just the cost of health care and support for all the veterans coming back, the extension of their families, you know, in the middle of the economic downturn, so many soldiers losing their homes and having to fight their way back in situations they should not have found themselves in. their money is wasted fighting something they should not have had to fight at home that they could have used to start their own business or educate themselves beyond what the g.i. bill did. there's such a drag that it's almost uncharitable. here's what i would like to ask you real quick, if you can. caller: ok. hal: i don't know what time line you were there but it would seem -- caller: my first tour was 2005, another in 2006 and another in 2007 before we started wrapping up. hal: i don't know what your experience was or perhaps other so
it has had to many echos effects with our economy ptsd, coming back with so many different ailments, trying to get back adjusted to society. hal: the cascading cost of the iraq war is almost unfathomable, $2.2 trillion. you talk about the loss of just normal life things, just the cost of health care and support for all the veterans coming back, the extension of their families, you know, in the middle of the economic downturn, so many soldiers losing their homes and having to fight their way...
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. >> hal: salt being specific, but spices being something you can grow, they were a resourced based economy point, but you could create your own. the frozen concentrated orange juice, big factor in our stock market. the futures were so big that they were actually a plot point in trading -- >> i was going to say that's the best way anyone would know that -- >> hal: exactly. commodities. but the things that have been done in just getting chocolate out of south america, and that's just something people want not something that people need. oil when you are sitting on something that people need you create a power for yourself that is almost religious. because we go over here much like an atheist goes you don't have the window to god, a scientist can go oil isn't the only way, we have sun, hydrogenhydrogen wind power -- >> and everything is boiling down, all of the political parties, all of the religious beliefs are breaking down to someone found the da vinci code and makes a honey trap for that personal type. >> hal: right. >> the glen becks of the world have made a honey trap for people like gl
. >> hal: salt being specific, but spices being something you can grow, they were a resourced based economy point, but you could create your own. the frozen concentrated orange juice, big factor in our stock market. the futures were so big that they were actually a plot point in trading -- >> i was going to say that's the best way anyone would know that -- >> hal: exactly. commodities. but the things that have been done in just getting chocolate out of south america, and...